Sustainable Use and Development of Watersheds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainable Use and Development of Watersheds write by I. Ethem Gönenç. This book was released on 2008-07-15. Sustainable Use and Development of Watersheds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Wesley Powell, U.S. scientist and geographer, put it best when he said that a watershed is: ...that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community. Watersheds come in all shapes and sizes. They cross sectorial boundaries (e.g. county, state/province, and country). No matter where you are, you are in a watershed! World-wide, watersheds supply drinking water, provide r- reation and respite, and sustain life. Watersheds are rich in natural capital, producing goods (agriculture and fisheries products) and services (industry and technology) for broad geographic areas. In many countries, at the base of watersheds where tributaries empty into large water-bodies (e.g. estuaries, seas, oceans) are centers of society and are typically densely populated areas. These areas serve as concentrated centers of the socio-economic system. They also are centers of domestic and international trade, tourism, and c- merce as well as the center of governments (capitals) where local, regional and national legislatures are located. As we all live in a watershed, our individual actions can directly affect it. The cumulative effects of all the individual actions of everyone within a watershed may be, and often are devastating to the quality of water resources and affect the health of living things including humans. Therefore, watershed systems are highly subject to threat to human security and peace.
Sustainable Watershed Management
Sustainable Watershed Management - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainable Watershed Management write by I. Ethem Gonenc. This book was released on 2014-09-09. Sustainable Watershed Management available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This proceedings volume contains papers and extended abstracts presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Watershed Management (SuWaMa 2014). The Conference was the second in a series of Sustainable Watershed Management Conferences. The objective of the Conference Series was to present and discuss advanced environmental models and contemporary decision support tools for the sustainable use and development of watersheds. Contributions cover the following topics: sound watershed management practices (case studies and examples from various countries including lessons learned from implementation of both successful and deficient management scenarios), decision support tools (such as monitoring, GIS, ecological economics, cost/benefit analysis and decision making models), integrated environmental model applications for management (including watershed, air-shed, coastal, and living resource models), trans-boundary environmental issues (air pollution, climate change, coastal oceans at regional, continental, and global scales) and global watershed sustainability. This multidisciplinary volume will benefit natural and social scientists, engineers, managers and other professionals as well as stakeholders with an interest in water resources and their management.
The New Generation of Watershed Management Programmes and Projects
The New Generation of Watershed Management Programmes and Projects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Generation of Watershed Management Programmes and Projects write by . This book was released on 2006. The New Generation of Watershed Management Programmes and Projects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the occasion of the International Year of Mountains-2002, FAO and its partners undertook a large-scale assessment and global review of the current status and future trends of integrated and participatory watershed management. The overall objectives were to promote the exchange and dissemination of experiences in implementing watershed management projects in the decade from 1990 to 2000 and to identify the vision for a new generation of watershed management programmes and projects. This resource book represents a summary and critical analysis of the rich discussions and vast materials that emerged during the review, as well as the review's findings and recommendations. It presents the state of the art in watershed management, promotes further reflection and creative thinking and proposes new ideas and approaches for future watershed management programmes and projects. This publication has been written primarily for field-level watershed management practitioners and local decision-makers involved in watershed management at the district or municipality level. It will also be a useful source of information for other readers such as senior officers and consultants specialized in other areas, evaluators, policy-makers and students of watershed management
Water Policy for Sustainable Development
Water Policy for Sustainable Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water Policy for Sustainable Development write by David Lewis Feldman. This book was released on 2007-07-25. Water Policy for Sustainable Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Urban Watersheds
Urban Watersheds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Watersheds write by Martin M. Kaufman. This book was released on 2011-04-25. Urban Watersheds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the continuing increase in population, more people are sharing the finite resources of the urban watershed, resulting in new and increasingly complex interactions between humans and the environment. Environmental contamination is a chronic problem-and an expensive one. In urban areas, water and soil contamination poses a threat to public healt
